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This is Finagle's Law:
Sometimes called "Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives." A simplified version is this:
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Amongst the general populace, this is usually called "[[Murphy's Law]]." However, there is another Murphy's Law -- though still related to this one -- "If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it." In layman's terms, that means that if someone plugs in a toaster [[Reverse Polarity|backwards]] and it fries itself, the problem isn't just that some idiot plugged it in backward, but that it was able to be plugged in backwards in the first place. ''Someone's'' going to try and mess it up [[Hanlons Razor|(or mess it up without trying)]].
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